Cannot stop this thread...

Question

Hello, I have the following code:boolean kill = false;
public void go() {
   while (!kill) {
        sleep(3000);
        //do stuff.
public void stopThread() {
    kill = true;
}This code doesn't stop it. I cannot seem to stop this thread with the boolean variable. I think its because I have the thread asleep but I'm not sure. How can you stop a thread that sleeps for a period of time?
Thanks.

Answer 1

Here's my code: class CreateGui {
Vector<Thread> threads = new Vector<Thread>();
//lots of stuff here...
public void start() {
     Runnable runner;
runner = new RunThreads();
     Thread t = new Thread(runner);
     t.setName(_code);
     t.start();
     threads.add(t);
public void stop() {
     RunThreads r = new RunThreads();     
     r.stopThread();     
class RunThreads implements Runnable {     
     boolean kill = false; 
public void run() {
     go();
public void go() {
   while (!kill) {
     try {
     Thread.sleep(3000); .
     } //try          
     catch (InterruptedException ex) {
     ex.printStackTrace(); }
         //do stuff here...     
          } //while
} //method go
public void stopThread() {
     kill = true;
}The user clicks a button to start a thread, and then clicks another button to stop the thread. With this program I am supposed to have up to 26 threads running at once. I know I may not be doing things totally correctly, but that is what I'm trying to accomplish. I can take the harshest criticism: )